Chee Soon Juan's interview with Ellen Ratner on Singapore
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Chee talks to Ellen Ratner on Talk Radio News
Dr Chee Soon Juan was interviewed by Bureau Chief Ellen Ratner on Talk Radio News Service (TRNS) last night. He talked about the repression in Singapore, including the use of the Internal Security Act and defamation laws to silence dissent.
He also called on the US not to ignore human rights violations in Asia because democracy, with its emphasis on transparency and accountability, and trade go together.
TRNS broadcasts from Washington DC and New York City where it covers news from the White House, US Congress and the Unted Nations.
Listen to interview here.http://www.yoursdp.org/index.php/news/singapore/3048-chee-talks-to-ellen-ratna-on-talk-radio-news
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this guy is as determined as lky. Both of them should just go aside and fight out
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imagines lky hitting chee in boxing match....lky with white shorts...chee with red shorts!
both seen hoping around ,swiping and punching each other with their skinny frame....just then lky punches chee's face and chees mouthguard drops off....lky then goes in and tries to give chee lower jab and upper hook!chee covers face like muhammud ali style.
damn what a boring match.just waiting for gals in swimsuit to walk in during interval with big sign saying round 2.
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Dr Chee is a "Siao Kaw". Although I agree with his ideas and how Singapore should be but his methods, I cannot agree.
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There is another interview by Chee Soon Juan on The Lionel Show, watch it here.
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Originally posted by Nighthawkies:
Dr Chee is a "Siao Kaw". Although I agree with his ideas and how Singapore should be but his methods, I cannot agree.
If you cannot agree with Dr Chee's methods - what other alternative methods do you think can be used, and which will be effective to make change happen, and to achieve Democracy so as to allow accountability and transparency in politics as also in business ? -
The US acts first in their own interests, if they can continue to park their naval forces and trade with SG, they certainly wouldn't bother about your politics
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Originally posted by Atobe:
If you cannot agree with Dr Chee's methods - what other alternative methods do you think can be used, and which will be effective to make change happen, and to achieve Democracy so as to allow accountability and transparency in politics as also in business ?Change must come from within. A person can only change something when he is within the system, not by shouting from the outside. To make change, make sure he is in the position to do so.
He should know that people will only help you only if you're useful to them and there is nothing free in this world. Favour has to be repaid eventually.
He is doing this on the pretext of helping the society but deep down it is more so for himself as his heart is full of hatred for what the Lees had done to him. All this at the expenses of the well-being of the society.
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Perhaps it's all about a personal vendetta?
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Originally posted by Vader1337:
The US acts first in their own interests, if they can continue to park their naval forces and trade with SG, they certainly wouldn't bother about your politics
You mean as long as the US can park their naval assets in Singapore while Singapore can trade with US?? How true. US is not concerned about democracy or human rights they are concerned about themselves. They are aloud about Sang Suu Kyi simply because Myanmar is not opening up to US wishes. It's called Realpolitik Henry Kissinger is a well proponent of which. -
Originally posted by Zilchster:
Perhaps it's all about a personal vendetta?
To lky he makes it personal if anyone dare to refuse to obey him. Lol the old irrational man with billions to buy off less than noble people. -
Singaporeans rent their livelihood from lky. The island is owned and run by lky and familee anyone who thinks otherwise is either ignorant or deluded.
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Originally posted by Miracles&Prophecies:
Singaporeans rent their livelihood from lky. The island is owned and run by lky and familee anyone who thinks otherwise is either ignorant or deluded.
U r the one deluded, i hv the rights to be in taiwan (PR) or Singapore (Citizen), but i choose here because i was educated here. In another words, the door is open, lky dun force you to rent your life to him, you can alway move out of your rental position.Prophecies is not science or proven facts, and as for Miracles, you wait long long.
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Chee can kpkb all he wants to the US but the fact is that Obama has bigger problems - the US economy. He will probably spend what little time he has at the economic forum trying to negotiate deals beneficial to the economic needs of the US. Sad but true but the little red dot's political situation is probably not high on his to-do list. Didn't he shake lky's hand last week on TV?
Even if he wants to talk about human rights in Asia, he has bigger fishes to fry - Burma. Singapore is only the ikan bilis :)
The only thing I believe you and I can do is to vote base on your own believe at the next election.
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Is small minded Chee asking Obama to stop trade with SIngapore?? Mad...
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Chee is not even our young singaproean dictionary.
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Originally posted by Nighthawkies:
Change must come from within. A person can only change something when he is within the system, not by shouting from the outside. To make change, make sure he is in the position to do so.
He should know that people will only help you only if you're useful to them and there is nothing free in this world. Favour has to be repaid eventually.
He is doing this on the pretext of helping the society but deep down it is more so for himself as his heart is full of hatred for what the Lees had done to him. All this at the expenses of the well-being of the society.
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Originally posted by Anyhowsay:
Is small minded Chee asking Obama to stop trade with SIngapore?? Mad...
You are the small minded one because you said it, not CSJ. Mad...
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He is doing this on the pretext of helping the society but deep down it is more so for himself as his heart is full of hatred for what the Lees had done to him. All this at the expenses of the well-being of the society.
If that was true Chee should had joined politics after he was sacked from NUS.
But Chee joined politics before he was sacked.
Dr Chee had been a fervent advocate for democracy since the days when he was still a National University of Singapore (NUS) psychology lecturer. In 1992, Dr. Chee joined the SDP and according to the words of then opposition leader Chiam See Tong he placed "his career in jeopardy". His first election was the 1992 Marine Parade By-election when his team won 24.5% of the votes in a People's Action Party stronghold. He won 34.8% of the votes in the 1997 General Election in MacPherson and led another team to win 20.2% of the votes in Jurong GRC.
In 1993, he was sacked by NUS for allegedly misappropriate use of research funds - the use of University funds to send documents, despite his having secured prior verbal consent - and in protest he staged a hunger strike, albeit while hooked to a drip.http://www.sgwiki.com/wiki/Chee_Soon_Juan
The facts contradicts your thesis.
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Whatever, Dr Chee is history to us. He foundation with the lower base is totally zero, for that, he failed miserably.
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I had encountered a few 1st class honours psychology graduates previously and even worked with them. Most of them really have some screws loose up in their head, none stayed in the company for more than 2 years. Probably Chee was their lecturer?
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Originally posted by Nighthawkies:
Probably Chee was their lecturer?
Actually Chee is trained in Neuropsychology, which is different from psychology.
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Originally posted by Nighthawkies:
Change must come from within. A person can only change something when he is within the system, not by shouting from the outside. To make change, make sure he is in the position to do so.
Can he be within the system - when he is seen as a threat to the PAP system from the first day that he stepped into the limelight and offer himself as a candidate from Academia after a dry period of over 10 years ?
CSJ remained locked out of the system by the deliberate attempts of LKY to keep CSJ out of the political system - in the same manner that LKY had kept JBJ out.
Can CSJ be in a position to do so with the seige mentality of an insecure LKY that will have no qualm to 'fix' anyone who dare to oppose him ?
He should know that people will only help you only if you're useful to them and there is nothing free in this world. Favour has to be repaid eventually.
By your standards - CSJ should have quit long ago, and so would you.
Fortunately for Singapore, CSJ is made of stronger stuff then you can possibly hope to have for your backbone.
If CSJ had asked for favor from LKY to allow CSJ to enter the political system - what price do you think CSJ has to pay for that favor given by LKY to CSJ ?
Should CSJ pay the price - of being blind and silent to all the PAP mistakes and bad policies to Singapore - in exchange for a seat in Parliament to change the system from within ?
What has LHL changed in the Singapore SYSTEM that his father had created - even as Singaporeans have built Singapore to what it is today ?
Has it not been a fact that after the 1997 economic melt-down - even as LHL boasted that he will be his own Man, and that there will be no sacred cows in his review of the SYSTEM to prepare Singapore to better cope with the next recession, all that LHL could say was that he had turned over all the stones on the road he took, inspected the stones, and feel more comfortable that some of the stones should be placed back to their original positions ?
After 14 years at the helm, GCT generation has come and gone, and now the LHL generation has taken over the PAP System since 2002 - has there been any major change in the PAP System that has benefitted Singaporeans or Singapore ?
It seems that with LHL's preference to leave some of the stones in their original place, change has not happened - which resulted in the worst economic recession to hit Singapore since the 1930s world economic depression.
He is doing this on the pretext of helping the society but deep down it is more so for himself as his heart is full of hatred for what the Lees had done to him. All this at the expenses of the well-being of the society.
What has CSJ done that is beneficial to himself and at the expense of the well-being of the Singapore society ?
Are you blaming the present economic recession on CSJ's actions ?
Which parts of his actions or statements made can you attribute to be beneficial to himself ?
It is easy to make generalise statements - can you be more specific with substance to back up what you dare to say publicly, if you cannot do so, then you are no better than just kicking an empty tin to attract attention to your hollow presence.
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Originally posted by Nighthawkies:
I had encountered a few 1st class honours psychology graduates previously and even worked with them. Most of them really have some screws loose up in their head, none stayed in the company for more than 2 years. Probably Chee was their lecturer?
It is normal for patients to imagine themselves to be working with their doctors.
It is normal for those with screws loose to think themselves as normal, and others not.
How long were you "working" those screw-loose psychologists - whom you have the "misfortune" to encounter ?
Are you still at the place where you had been working with them while they have left ?
Your must have a "long term" contractural arrangement even as those doctors were smarter to have moved on to better and greener pastures.
Perhaps you do not have the 1st Class Honors qualification that made you less wanted and got you resentfully stuck ?
Could that be the condition for your "long term tenure" in the place that you "think" you are working in ?